EARNINGS

wage, pay, earnings, remuneration, salary

(noun) something that remunerates; “wages were paid by check”; “he wasted his pay on drink”; “they saved a quarter of all their earnings”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

earnings pl (plural only)

Wages, money earned, income.

(finance) Business profits.

(finance) Gains on investments; returns.

Anagrams

• Reginans, aginners, engrains, geranins, grannies

Source: Wiktionary


EARNING

Earn"ing, n.; pl. Earnings (.

Definition: That which is earned; wages gained by work or services; money earned; -- used commonly in the plural. As to the common people, their stock is in their persons and in their earnings. Burke.

EARN

Earn, n. (Zoöl.)

Definition: See Ern, n. Sir W. Scott.

Earn, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Earned; p. pr. & vb. n. Earning.] Etym: [AS. earnian; akin to OHG. arn to reap, aran harvest, G. ernte, Goth. asans harvest, asneis hireling, AS. esne; cf. Icel. önn working season, work.]

1. To merit or deserve, as by labor or service; to do that which entitles one to (a reward, whether the reward is received or not). The high repute Which he through hazard huge must earn. Milton.

2. To acquire by labor, service, or performance; to deserve and receive as compensation or wages; as, to earn a good living; to earn honors or laurels. I earn that [what] I eat. Shak. The bread I have earned by the hazard of my life or the sweat of my brow. Burke. Earned run (Baseball), a run which is made without the assistance of errors on the opposing side.

Syn.

– See Obtain.

Earn, v. t. & i. Etym: [See 1st Yearn.]

Definition: To grieve. [Obs.]

Earn, v. i. Etym: [See 4th Yearn.]

Definition: To long; to yearn. [Obs.] And ever as he rode, his heart did earn To prove his puissance in battle brave. Spenser.

Earn, v. i. Etym: [AS. irnan to run. Rennet, and cf. Yearnings.]

Definition: To curdle, as milk. [Prov. Eng.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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